Plain English Breakdown
The source text does not specify an effective date or timeline for when the next revision of the Health Framework will happen.
Adding Heat Illness Safety to School Health Lessons
This law requires state officials to consider adding lessons about preventing and treating heat illness when they update the health curriculum for California schools.
What This Bill Does
- Requires the Instructional Quality Commission to review the next version of the 'Health Framework for California Public Schools.'
- Asks the commission to consider including content on how to prevent, recognize signs and symptoms of, and respond to heat illness.
- Directs officials to recommend this specific content for adoption by the State Board of Education if included.
- Requires the use of guidance from the State Department of Public Health when writing this content.
- Requires consideration of policies adopted by the California Interscholastic Federation.
Who It Names or Affects
- The Instructional Quality Commission
- The California State Board of Education
Terms To Know
- Instructional Quality Commission
- A group that creates and recommends school lesson plans to the state.
- Health Framework for California Public Schools
- The official guidebook used by schools to teach health topics.
- Heat illness
- Medical problems caused by the body getting too hot, such as heat exhaustion or heat stroke.
Limits and Unknowns
- The law only asks officials to consider adding this content; it does not force them to include every detail.
- The bill applies only during the next scheduled update of the health framework, which has no set date in this text.